Venetian, award-winning independent curator majored
with a first class degree in History of Contemporary Art, she has studied in
both Venice and Paris winning a University fellowship at Magnum Photos Paris’
archives. Over the past ten years she has worked as a producer for both
exhibitions and books, supporting over sixty photographers including Koudelka
and D’Agata. Francesca’s work is linked to the production of a number of
projects for Magnum Photos, both in Paris and Milan. Her recent works as a
curator, writer and researcher include Shining
in absence book (AMC - Kessels); Mother
Nature (RVB - Kessels); Dalston
Anatomy by Lorenzo Vitturi book (SPBH) and shows in Europe (Foam Museum in
Amsterdam, CNA Luxembourg, The Photographers’ Gallery in London, in Yossi Milo
Gallery in New York and at IMA Gallery Tokyo); Alex & Me by James Pfaff (Montanari). Francesca teaches artist
development in Milan at Officine Fotografiche; she supports photographers in
discovering their own identity and in building the concept and the layout of
their book and exhibition.

In 2015 with the “Until Proven Otherwise / On the Evidence of the First Photos”,
exhibited at Format Festival, she won the Paul Hill Exposure FORMAT15 Award. The
project is a body of “archaeological research” aiming to prove the authenticity
of commonly accepted First Photos. The exhibition became an Open Air Museum and
an Urban Intervention. Large prints historical photographs were woven into the
urban environment, firstly in Bari in 2015, invited by Planar and than at
Puntasecca in 2016 for Gazebook Festival. In November 2016 the project was
exhibited with a new installation at the Wroclaw Museum to celebrate the European
Capital of Culture. The obsession of the First Time continues in her curatorial
practice with the project Everything has
its First Time where Francesca digs up many archetypes of our contemporary
society and transforms archival materials into conceptual art. Her new works
include the exhibition Quantum Pixel at
Brighton Festival of Art in 2016, the video Secret
Communication at London Photo Fair 2016, Venice Film Festival 2016, Photo
Saint Germain, Paris 2017, Fabrica x
Aquagranda at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa Gallery, Venice 2016 the video Ca’ Pesaro’s women commissioned and
presented at Ca’ Pesaro, Museum of Modern Art of Venice, 2017. Her last curatorial
works was for exhibition shown in Fotografia Europea 2017. In September 2017
she was invited to do an audio performance for the collective POIUYT at UNSEEN
Festival. She currently lives between London and Venice where she has been
leading a group of curators and archival researchers at Fabrica. Currently she
is curating and designing Alex & Me solo show by James Pfaff, with painting and installation on archival material,
at the Street Level Photoworks Gallery during Glasgow
International in April 2018 and the new book Alex & Me – Coda with Montanari publishing.